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Don Jorge Quesada in the Zona Rosa house 2000

Don Jorge Quesada in the Zona Rosa house 2000 Don Jorge has a double doctorate from the university of Navarre. He's the youngest of Tere's uncles and has sacrificed his life to teaching in higher education sometimes in the most remote and harsh environments in Mexico and Latin America. He is wonderful to talk to, but his special interest is astronomy and I remember he gave me a book, long ago in 1994, which showed the cosmic imprint of background radiation. We lived right opposite the Observatory in Guadalajara. Its roof was across from ours and sometimes I would go up in the night and look at the stars and at the observatory and wish that I too was an astronomer. Don Jorge was very indulgent of my skepticism. He smiled and smiled, but couldn't really be bothered to explain too much. I think priests see the negation of atheists as, essentially, part of a contrarian search for God. Don Jorge introduced me to the anthropic principle. When we were in M